From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4682 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: .authinfo is ignored on startup Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:37:28 GMT Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: References: <4nwts8zrwy.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670550 24307 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:22:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:09 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr19.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!e464402b!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yHjtjL6yJAWyJsIkGDY3CE14Yus= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.74.113.57 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr19.news.prodigy.com 1110940648 ST000 68.74.113.57 (Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:37:28 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:37:28 EST X-UserInfo1: Q[R_PJON]BRWSTLYJJJ@NFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\RZ]CDVW[AKK[J\]^HVKHG^EWZHBLO^[\NH_AZFWGN^\DHNVMX_DHHX[FSQKBOTS@@BP^]C@RHS_AGDDC[AJM_T[GZNRNZAY]GNCPBDYKOLK^_CZFWPGHZIXW@C[AFKBBQS@E@DAZ]VDFUNTQQ]FN Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4823 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4823 Tue Jan 17 17:34:09 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4682 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > >> I'm trying a different newsserver for a while and put the needed info >> in ~/.authinfo. However, when I start gnus it still prompts me for my >> uid and passwd. I've tripple checked that its entered correctly. >> >> I type the exact same info at the 2 prompts and get the news. How can >> I debug this? C-x i ~/.authinfo machine enews.newsguy.com login myuid password xxxxxxx machine news.ind.sbclgobal.net login myuid@xxxxx.net password xxxxxxx The first one for newsguy works as expected. Sbcglobal requires the full email address including `@'. I continue to get prompted for both on that server and when entered at the prompt exactly as in authinfo it works.